Surgical dentistry

Surgical dentistry is a vast field that includes a huge number of different procedures. It is not limited to tooth extraction, although such manipulations are performed most often.

The main task of modern surgery in dentistry is precisely the preservation of the health of teeth and gums, therefore its main direction is tooth-preserving operations.

Thanks to the latest methods and protocols of surgical treatment, it is possible to avoid even the removal of a tooth with a cyst and caries at the root! Procedures such as resection, hemisection, cystotomy and cystectomy have become firmly established in the practice of dental surgeons.

Specialists of the Polyclinic.ae clinic successfully carry out osteoplasty and dental implantation operations, simple and complex removal of wisdom teeth. The examination is performed on the latest equipment by highly qualified doctors, which minimizes the risk of medical errors and ensures accurate diagnosis.

Dentists of other specialties resort to the help of a surgeon:

• therapists, when there is no way to save a tooth, and it must be removed;
• orthopedists, in preparation for prosthetics;
• orthodontists, before installing braces and other orthodontic systems;
• periodontology, if you need rehabilitation of periodontal pockets and gum plasty;
• speech therapists, for cutting the frenulum of the tongue.

Surgical interventions are required after injuries, with the development of infectious and inflammatory processes and neoplasms, as well as congenital and acquired defects of the maxillofacial region.

But the competence of dental surgeons is not limited to this either. It also includes diseases of the facial nerves and salivary glands.

However, the most popular procedure is tooth extraction for various indications. It can be simple and complex, taking into account the individual anatomical features of the patient. The most difficult is the extraction of the third – wisdom teeth, which are often located atypically, and access to them is difficult.

Thus, doctors of the Polyclinic.ae clinic effectively solve a variety of aesthetic and functional tasks related to the preservation or restoration of dental units, normalization of the work of the jaws and the dental apparatus as a whole.

For an objective assessment of the size, structure and position of the tooth in a row, experienced surgeons perform diagnostics, which often includes computed tomography.

What diseases are treated by a dental surgeon

Patients who have been diagnosed with the following diseases are sent to the surgical department of the Polyclinic.ae medical center:

• chronic periodontitis, in which conservative therapy is ineffective;
• retinated, dystopian wisdom teeth;
• pericoronitis – inflammation of the parotid tissues in the area of the erupting wisdom tooth;
• inflammation of the periosteum – periostitis, or flux;
• purulent processes in the oral cavity with the formation of phlegmon and abscesses;
• a crack or fracture of the dental root;
• severe destruction of the tooth that cannot be restored;
• pronounced mobility of teeth in periodontal pathologies;
• fracture of the crown part of the tooth with pulp exposure;
• super-complete units;
• periodontal pockets requiring rehabilitation;
• complete or partial absence of teeth that are planned to be restored by implantation.

Types of dental operations in the Polyclinic.ae clinic

Our surgeons perform the following surgical interventions:

• removal of baby and permanent teeth;
• removal of retenated, semi- retenated and dystopian wisdom teeth;
• dental implantation;
• bone grafting before the installation of implants with insufficient bone volume;
• closed and open curettage of periodontal pockets;
• flap operations to reduce the volume of gingival pockets;

In some cases, we perform gumplasty. Gingivoplasty is performed in case of gum recession with the exposure of the dental neck. Gingivectomy is carried out with a heavily overgrown mucosa that has closed part of the tooth and interferes with brushing teeth.